Yemane I. Demissie is an independent filmmaker who has received numerous national and international grants and fellowships for his work including Best Picture nominee at M-NET’s All Africa Film Awards, the Walter Mosley award for Best Documentary, the Locarno Film Festival Production Grant, the Paulin...

After attending Film school at Boston University, Jeff Wynne began his career on the production staff at United Artists Pictures and MGM Pictures.  Under the Sr. V.P. of Production, he helped supervise physical production of thirty feature films.    Jeff was a quarterfinalist in the Motion Picture...

Esther de Rothschild is a New York City public school teacher, and has worked in education for over 10 years across four continents. Her Humanities class at the School of the Future focuses on story: reading, writing, acting and analyzing true and fictional tales from...

Malia Scotch Marmo wrote Steven Spielberg’s fantasy, Hook, and also served as associate producer on the film. Her first produced film was “Once Around”, directed by Lasse Hallstrom. Malia received story credit for Madeline. Malia’s uncredited work in order of the size of her contributing as...

Fellippe Gamarano Barbosa, born in Rio de Janeiro, completed his MFA in film at Columbia University. Two of his short films- La Muerte Es Pequena and Salt Kiss – Screened at the Sundance Film Festival. Salt Kiss was an official selection of the New York...

Born in West Indies, this Canadian writer’s beginning took shape in the form of short story and playwriting. A graduate of York University’s Honors Film and Video Production program, she wrote and directed several short films while learning the craft of screenwriting under some of...